DIY - Build Your Own Stomp Box (Foot drum)

In this video, Scott Lindsey of The 1969s shows you the materials needed to make a unique stompbox or footdrum that has a true blues sound. Scott also compares it to the Thunder Stomp box.

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Music

Tags:

• Mississippi license plate
• the 1969s
• scott lindsey
• ted crocker
• stomp box
• Airline Guitar
• Harmony Stratotone
• Terraplane Floorboard
• Thunder stomp box
• open G
• blues guitar

[cohnstreet]

Sounds great! What tuning is on that guitar?

[reverbunit]

@cohnstreet OPEN G

[99camarosupersport]

Is there any way to build a 'pass through' stomp box? as in my guitar goes in, I can hook it up to my looper, then to my amp?

[reverbunit]

@99camarosupersport try an A/B Box coming out or you can wire one up

[ccendana]

dude, put my own version of this stompbox together and played with it for the first time at the Hard Rock Cafe Pittsburgh! It flippin ROCKED. Thank you for the idea brother! I'll have to find a video from last night :D

[reverbunit]

@ccendana awesome. glad you are getting some quality miles out of it.

[sherriandalan]

Frickin awsome.

[jeffmilkey]

I ran out of characters...I was stomping on the plate and it was kind of harsh and not round like a kick drum...I was going to go cut out a wood cover to replace the plate and then I thought...why not just turn the box upside down...put the plate on the floor and stomp on the bottom...HOLY CRAP...it sounds just like a kick drum!!!!! I just need to buy 4 bolt on rubber feet and attach them to the plate on the bottom.....Try this you will not be dissappointed! Looks like we have a GREAT Design

[jeffmilkey]

So I built a license plate box...the pickup idea does not work very well in my opinion...using magnetic pickups to amplify hitting the box...well it is not what you would expect...Here is what I did and now have the best stomp box EVER! build as shown but instead of pickups go buy a piezo transducer from Radio Shack for $2. Use the vol and tone and jack...now here is the secret sandwich the piezo between some foam and wood pressed hard against the plate...then turn the whole thing over HEAVEN!

[imiller35]

69 lol



[FirstStepForward]

Is there a way you could upload a video showing how you put all the electronic parts together and put them in the side??

[jimicoop]

Just made one. I used some strat pickups that were available and it sounds great. Can't wait to start using it at my fingerstyle shows. Cheers! - Jimi C

[zombietomatoes]

great! you're a huge! that's exactly the sound i was searching for a stompbox!

well, what do you think about using guitar pick ups the fact is that it would spare me to buy bass one)? using with a bass amp?

[micmoable]

hey, tell me how much the bass pickups cost and how are they attached to the underside of tag?

[elijahlucian]

do you have any direct in recordings of this? the live version is kind of wetter because of the snare on the drum kit behind you.